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No, this is what he's saying: Facebook has shown that they contribute good OSS and want people to use it with no strings attached.

His quip about Oracle was completely irrelevant to the content of his comment. In my opinion, Facebook proved themselves champions of OSS when they relaxed their license on React (which is now vanilla MIT with no stupid patent clauses).

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The quality of the product is usually not the main concern in a boycott. They make some great software, but they are a detestable company.

You don't punish a naughty dog when they get something right. You punish them for the things they do wrong. People should just grow up.

> which is now vanilla MIT with no stupid patent clauses

Except a patent clause actually gives you more protection, not less. That's why some other licenses explicitly include a patent grant, like the Apache license. I think the patent clause was a misunderstanding more than anything else. In any case, Facebook responded to what the community wanted.

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